Equivalence of Self- and Staff-Collected Nasal Swabs for the Detection of Viral Respiratory Pathogens

BACKGROUND: The need for the timely collection of diagnostic biosamples during symptomatic episodes represents a major obstacle to large-scale studies on acute respiratory infection (ARI) epidemiology. This may be circumvented by having the participants collect their own nasal swabs. We compared sel...

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Autores principales: Akmatov, Manas K., Gatzemeier, Anja, Schughart, Klaus, Pessler, Frank
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23155387
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048508

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23155387
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048508

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